you offspring of Israel his servant, Jacob’s descendants #– #his chosen ones.
Isaiah 41:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, my friend – Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham My friend, [Heb. 2:16; James 2:23.] American Standard Version (1901) But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, Common English Bible But you, Israel my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham, whom I love, Catholic Public Domain Version But you, O Israel, are my servant, O Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of my friend Abraham. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But thou Israel art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend: |
you offspring of Israel his servant, Jacob’s descendants #– #his chosen ones.
Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and who gave it for ever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will choose Israel again. He will settle them on their own land. The resident foreigner will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.
Therefore, the Lord who redeemed Abraham says this about the house of Jacob: Jacob will no longer be ashamed, and his face will no longer be pale.
‘This is my servant; I strengthen him, this is my chosen one; I delight in him. I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring justice to the nations.
Who is blind but my servant, or deaf like my messenger I am sending? Who is blind like my dedicated one, or blind like the servant of the Lord?
Now this is what the Lord says – the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel – ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine.
‘You are my witnesses’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and there will be none after me.
Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west.
Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; Israel, you will never be forgotten by me. ,
I call you by your name, for the sake of my servant Jacob and Israel my chosen one. I give a name to you, though you do not know me.
‘Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, the one called by me: I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.
He said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.’
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.
Yet you are our Father, even though Abraham does not know us and Israel doesn’t recognise us. You, Lord, are our Father; your name is Our Redeemer from Ancient Times.
‘Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, “The Lord has rejected the two families he had chosen.” My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them.
They are not to be sold as slaves, because they are my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt.
‘I have loved you,’ says the Lord. Yet you ask, ‘How have you loved us? ’ ‘Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother? ’ This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Even so, I loved Jacob,
And don’t presume to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.” For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
Why, then, was the law given? It was added for the sake of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.
Yet the Lord had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them. He chose their descendants after them #– #he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.
for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, , and he was called God’s friend.